Customer Reviews for WooCommerce <= 5.38.10 - Improper Authorization via submit_review

Improper Access Control
CVE CVE-2024-1044
CVSS Medium (5.3)
Publicly Published February 6, 2024
Last Updated July 31, 2024
Researcher Francesco Carlucci
Description

The Customer Reviews for WooCommerce plugin for WordPress is vulnerable to unauthorized modification of data due to a missing capability check on the 'submit_review' function in all versions up to, and including, 5.38.12. This makes it possible for unauthenticated attackers to submit reviews with arbitrary email addresses regardless of whether reviews are globally enabled.

References

1 affected software package

Software Type Plugin
Software Slug customer-reviews-woocommerce (view on wordpress.org)
Patched? Yes
Affected Version
  • <= 5.38.12
Patched Version
  • 5.39.0
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